Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Silencing a GLib-GObject-WARNING

When gcc tells you something like this… (process:28965): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: specified instance size for type `MyObject’ is smaller than the parent type’s `GObject’ instance size & you know that you’ve covered all the possible bugs in your object code – think again! Check your structure definition! Remember – the GObject & GObjectClass members in the [...]

A good time to assemble the PC – AMD PC!

Just found out on Slashdot that AMD is significantly cutting down processor’s costs… Have a look at this article

Exposing a DBus signal as a Glib signals

Though there is no direct api to make this happen, one can easily route the DBus signal as a Glib signal. All’s that required is to add a callback to the DBus signal using dbus_g_proxy_connect_signal and then emit the related GLib signal from that callback using g_signal_emit Download the tarball :  GObject-dbus-signal-as-g-signal.tar.gz This example contains [...]

The update is finally in progress…

Its 6:50 am in the morning & i’m still in the office… updating one’s website is one tough task! Even though the templates are available in abundance, modifying them to your taste takes a lot of time. Anyways, I’ve finally settled the UI which is in place – check out http://www.makuchaku.in For the lazy bums [...]

A true Hero

Just spoke to Gaurav & found out that he’s enterpreneur’d http://www.hostcurry.com with a friend. & truly speaking, I’m really impressed. It takes more than just a business plan to start something like this – courage, time & ability to face an eventuality of heavy losses (personal & financial). I’ve been planning to start something but [...]

I’m gonna get this one!

OpenMoko – Wiki | Review | Presentation General availability would be late March this year & the device would be around USD 350

Managed to beat them all!

10-Jul-2005 – when I had registered makuchaku.in domain (infact it was a sponsored domain), I always dreamt of being on top of google search when “Mayank Jain” was searched. But MAYANKJAIN.{COM,FI} were already taken & since they were a direct hit for the search term, they always occupied a place above my website – & [...]

Expected – E90 announcement at 3GSM World Congress later today

I just saw on Mobile Gazette that Nokia might be announcing the Nokia E90 Communicator later today at the 3GSM World Congress. Wow – it can be a definite successor to my E61. I have not seen much of E90 (its yet to be announced & Nokia was keeping its release under tight security), but [...]

Downloading VMWare image for Bora…

Download the image Thanks to Wahlau for the information

Getting past Display-Projector compatibility problems at events!

If you had been in my shoes today, you would have loved this idea – which just struck me! My ATI display had a compatibility problem with the projector in room 407 @ GNUnify & I had to resort to using the laptops available with the organizers – which had a series of problems! How [...]